Now that’s pretty impressive. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a United Nations body tasked with gathering and describing the world’s research on climate change.

I wondered how one might be “appointed” as an “expert reviewer”, so I asked the secretariat at the IPCC about the process. Here’s what they told me (my bolding).

Anyone can register as an expert reviewer on the open online registration systems set up by the working groups. All registrants that provide the information requested and confirm their scientific expertise via a self-declaration of expertise are accepted for participation in the review. They are invited to list publications, but that is not a requirement and the section can be left blank when registering. There is no appointment.

Hang on. No appointment? But Lord Monckton just.. but he says that he.. right there, he just said he was appointed, all official like. Reading the response from the IPCC, it sounds as though even I could get that gig.

It would make a cracking addition to most people’s CV. Anyone out there who might be thinking about applying for a job that you just know in your heart of hearts you’re not qualified to do, might want to think about asking Lord Christopher Monckton for a bit of guidance.

Because when it comes to puffing out your CV, the non-Member of the House of Lords is highly skilled.

His modus operandi (aside from speaking Latin in interviews) appears to be that the more spectacular the claim, the less likely people are to disbelieve you. Like climate change science being a plot to “shut down the west“, for example.

Claimed to have penned an article during the Falkland’s War which was read out by the BBC’s World Service Argentinian broadcasts, when the BBC World Service didn’t have an Argentinian service or do any Argentinian broadcasts.

Claimed he was forced to sell his home in order to pay $1 million prize money tied to a board game he had designed. He later admitted he made up the story to boost sales.

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He was of course born a peasant. He is a third generation BS artist for hire. Grampa worked in propaganda in WW2 and was kicked upstairs after Suez for being an embarrassment to the Government during Suez, joining the nobility when Chris was 5. Daddy was a Defence Department spinner during the Profumo days. The sanctimonious airs and graces are those of an arriviste.

I too am an expert review for the IPCC – in contrast to Monckton, I don’t ever cite this – afterall, it’s only a peace prize. What did Yasser Arafat (1994) ever do for climate science? 🙂
Those crazy Norwegians…

Wikipedia for Chris and you can link back through the generations. Gramps advised Edward VIII and spent WW2 in propaganda. He was Minister for Defense in 1956 at the time of Suez and opposed the government policy (je ne sais pas??) so it reads like they needed to get him out of the way.